Head Trauma
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After a 20 year absence, drifter, George Walker, returns home to settle his grandmother's estate. As if awakening from a long dream, he finds his childhood home condemned and littered with the remnants of squatters. In the midst of trying to save his past, George falls and strikes his head, triggering an onslaught of vivid nightmares and waking visions. As the horror intrudes on George's reality, his conviction grows that someone or something is trying to kill him.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Head Trauma:

Vince Mola
Jamil A.C. Mangan
Mary Monahan
Meryl Lynn Brown
Brandee Sanders
Jim Sullivan

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After a 20 year absence, drifter, George Walker, returns home to settle his grandmother's estate. As if awakening from a long dream, he finds his childhood home condemned and littered with the remnants of squatters. In the midst of trying to save his past, George falls and strikes his head, triggering an onslaught of vivid nightmares and waking visions. As the horror intrudes on George's reality, his conviction grows that someone or something is trying to kill him.

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Calgary Movies - 8/10 by Ryan CracknellMuch of the time you're guessing what's real and what's not, but it's not done in such a way that you're lost and confused. Instead there's this creepy vibe that crawls across your skin.
PopMatters - 8/10 by Brian HolcombLike the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality.
User Review - 10/10 by Mike HStarring: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C. Mangan, Mary Monahan, Brandee Sanders, and Jim Sullivan. Directed by Lance Weiler. Written by Brian Majeska and Lance Weiler. No MPAA rating (contains intense terror/violence and disturbing images). Running time approximately 1 hour 24 minutes. Review Coming Soon! [b]**** (out of ****) A+[/b]
User Review - 8/10 by Laura MIn the classic Cat People, Jacques Tourneur played on our fears by capitalizing on ambiguity, terrorizing audiences with a deadly predator that remains sight unseen. In the legendary Jaws, Steven Spielberg played on our fears by capitalizing on our overactive imaginations, frightening audiences with a deadly predator that remains mostly sight unseen. With the psychological thriller Head Trauma, director Lance Weiler's plays on our fears by giving us a mind-bending Rosharch Test in which the protagonist - and the audience by proxy - spirals into a terrifying dreamstate where reality, like ink-blots, evolves out of what we think is seen. After a 20 year absence, a drifter with a troubled past (Mola), returns home to settle his grandmother's estate, only to find that her house is scheduled for demolition. As he tries to save his legacy from the wrecking ball with the help of some friends (Mangan, Monahan), a series of disturbing nightmares threatens to unravel a deeply repressed secret involving a mysterious young woman (Brandee Sanders). Like Tourneur and Speilberg in the early stage of their careers, Weiler has a limited bag of tricks due to a restrictive budget, but resourcefully uses it well. Having honed his skills well on the cunning shocker The Last Broadcast, he shuffles the base aesthetics and a tricked-out soundtrack into a scary-as-hell narrative that seems almost epic, if only because he is playing with our own skewered perception. The fine cast fires on all cylinders, making the tale all the scarier because they look so terrifyingly, well, normal. Weiler learned well: An audience certainly does not need an airbrushed Sarah Michelle Gellar crawling around in leather pants to signify ultimate terror. Bottom line: Get some Head.
User Review - 8/10 by Robert BHead Trauma (Lance Weiler, 2006) Head Trauma was the seventh movie I watched on February 15, 2013. (I love days when I get to work from home!) Previous to it, the highest rating any of those movies has gotten was a star and a half; my choices today turned out to be phenomenally bad. I was quite thankful this ended up breaking the streak; it's a fine, if flawed, little no-budget thriller that reminded me a great deal of Lodge Kerrigan's cult hit Clean, Shaven. Save that Head Trauma has a plot. And actors who can actually act. You know, little niceties like that that can make all the difference between something well-meaning but insufferable and something watchable that just misses the mark. And even that may be putting it too mildly here; Head Trauma does not necessarily miss said mark as much as dance around it, spitting occasionally and poking it with sticks, thumbing its nose at what Hollywood has conditioned average American audiences to expect from a movie. To continue that comparison from above, Clean, Shaven took much the same approach to filmmaking, I think, but Head Trauma, in my estimation, surpassed its churlish older brother by every metric I can come up with. Simply put, this is one hell of a little movie that far too few people saw. Plot: George Walker (Vince Mola, in his only screen performance) is a socially-awkward, possibly mentally challenged, and previously homeless guy who comes back to the town where he grew up in order to settle his grandmother's estate and move into her house, which is now condemned by the city. When he gets there and goes into the house to set up camp, he starts looking around, and disturbs Julian (A Dangerous Place's Jamil A. C. Morgan), who's in the house "hanging out". The two have an altercation that ends in George taking a header off the front porch. Julian hauls him home to be tended to by his grandmother Roberta (Meryl Lynn Brown, also in her only screen appearance to date), who knew George as a child, and the two of them spend some time catching up once George regains consciousness. Roberta orders Julian, in atonement for injuring George, to help him clean up the house, and the two of them form a tentative, unlikely bond. George also encounters Mary Sherman (Slice's Mary Monahan), an old crush from his high school years, and also needs to fend off the unwelcome attentions of Chester (Jim Sullivan, in another of the film's "only screen appearance" actors), who wants nothing more than for the city to come demolish the place, since it's lowering the neighborhood's property values-oh, and who just happens to be Mary's ex. On top of all of the human drama, George becomes convinced the house is haunted-he begins seeing things in the basement, which is currently flooded (and where Julian won't set foot, though whether that's because of the ghost or not wanting the spoil his trainers is left up to the viewer to decide). Previous to the past half-decade, watching films on a repeat basis was a standard portion of my repertoire; I've seen probably a half-dozen films more than fifty times, and I know I have seen at least two over one hundred times (Scanners and Begotten). But in the past half-decade, I have watched only two films twice all the way through (I regularly skim films again while writing reviews, but I will only watch key scenes to fact-check). One of them is The Wicker Man. The other is Head Trauma. I originally rated it three stars, entered it in the document to be reviewed, and promptly lost it in the shuffle. I came upon it while trolling through the nether regions of said document, where the things to be reviewed are in chronological order, and realized how much this movie had continued to haunt me long after I had finished watching it; I sat down with it again almost a year to the day later. It validated everything I remembered about it and then some. Much of that has to do with Vince Mola's performance, which is entirely believable, if a little cringeworthy at times. (The cringeworthiness is a big part of the believability, which is somewhat unfortunate.) And while-without being spoily-the ultimate resolution to the mystery/horror end of the deal is stock, it is handled with care and sympathy not often found in big-budget mysteries, much less shoestring indie films. I hadn't made this connection before, but Lance Weiler was half of the directorial team who made The Last Broadcast, the genesis of the found-footage film (in that it was the direct inspiration for The Blair Witch Project). That Weiler (his co-director on TLB, Stefan Avalos, is now working as a camera guy on the horrifying TV series Toddlers and Tiaras, which is scarier than anything in any horror movie ever made) has turned out two movies this damn good and never done any other features is a crime against humanity. Here, especially, he took a cast of (mostly) non-actors and turned them into people who, when on a screen, can rival the best of Hollywood's B-list...and he made it seem effortless. The things about the movie that impressed me the second time around were much different than those that did the first; it was the relationship between George and Julian, so devoid of the stock Hollywood emotional shortcuts-for that matter, George's relationships with everyone in the film, really. The one time Weiler does use a stock emotional shortcut, it makes perfect sense. (It's the opening shot of the final sequence-without bring too spoily, I hope, it's the shot where George is sitting on the curb, clutching an important article of clothing, warring with himself over the most important decision he has ever made.) And-despite the fact that it hasn't been Weiler's stock in trade throughout the movie, he gets Mola to pull it off. That's talent, right there. Head Trauma is a movie far too few people have seen (373 votes on IMDB as of this writing), and it is one that has, or should have, enough broad appeal that it can be recommended to almost anyone-horror fans will find it a bit quiet, but should still like it; mystery fans will eat it up; romance fans are sure to empathize with either George or Mary; human-drama kids will love the way George and Julian's friendship blossoms. It's a movie that's got everything, and yet has, inexplicably, been seen by almost no one. If you get a chance (the movie is usually streamable on Netflix Instant), see it, and sooner rather than later. ****
User Review - 6/10 by Mike SGood flick, very low key and featuring a cast of unknowns. This goes a long way towards selling the small madness that one man finds when he returns to the abandoned home of his grandmother to try and get his life together. Worth a rental.
User Review - 6/10 by Jason DPretty decent low budget psychological horror film that was a little predictable, but fun to watch. Very moody and tense at times, and often reminiscent of Stir of Echoes. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it is fun to watch horror films that, while they may not be the best around, they aren't a fucking remake, an overdone sequel, or a bastardized American version of a foreign classic. It's also fun to watch such a unique and different anti-lead character. Worth a watch, I say!!
User Review - 6/10 by Matt CThere are movies out there that I like and when I try to explain them to friends, I say they are WTF (What The Fuck) movies. This movie definitely falls into that category, but that does not make it a bad thing. A good chunk of WTF movies I have seen turn out as a decent movie but iti is just hard to explain them. This is a independent horror/psychological thriller that has get imagery and a very good story line that will keep you guessing until the end. Give it a whirl.
User Review - 6/10 by David SLance Weiler, director of the cult classic "The Last Broadcast", wrote and directed this little gem that's a surprisingly accomplished work considering its *very* low budget. The narrative is admittedly derivative of other works ("The Machinist" and "The Tenant" spring to mind) but regardless it's still well constructed with a strong sense of mystery and a conclusion that makes sense of all its more surreal and ambiguous moments - no threads are left hanging, resulting in a very tight and focused feature. The acting it admittedly weak as Weiler had to use whatever actors willing to work for, well, nothing, but they are still efficient enough to carry the film to the end. The direction, however, is probably the strongest aspect as Weiler is able to create some truly creepy and frightening imagery - imagery that's more effective than most big-budgeted films - and create a potent atmosphere of dread. This is recommended to all thriller aficionados alike - it may not be original but it is very effective. I would also give a higher recommendation to those interested in low-budget independent filmmaking as it's truly impressive and inspirational to see what can be done on such a minuscule budget.
User Review - 6/10 by Private UThis was interesting. I wasn't super impressed, it was a bit abstract and weird, but impressive what they did with a tiny budget, and always cool to see (or hear) people you know on a DVD.

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